Priest's letter condemns military.(Don Lorenzo Milani)(conscientious objectors)(Brief Article)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 8, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

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For the site of their alternative Jubilee, Italy's conscientious objectors chose the tiny northern village of Barbiana, so obscure that it doesn't show up on most maps. Yet the spot looms large in the country's mental geography because of its association with a priest who was, in many ways, the Italian equivalent of the Berrigan brothers: Don Lorenzo Milani.

Like the famous U.S. peace activists Philip and Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Milani, who died in 1967, was a fierce critic of the country's political and military establishment and a thorn in the side of church ...

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